Rhizome short; scales 10 by 2-2.5 mm, narrowed evenly to apex, light brown, thin, with slender marginal hairs; phyllopodia to 1 cm long. Sterile frond: stipe pale or slightly rufous, 6-9 (-13) cm long, upper 2-3 cm with narrow wing decurrent from lamina; lamina thick and rigid when dry, 11-15 by 2.1-3.4 cm, widest about middle, rather abruptly narrowed to a +-obtuse-angled apex and more gradually to a narrowly cuneate base; thin pale edge more than 0.5 mm wide; veins obscure except on young fronds, their apices thickened, sometimes forked, the branches then sometimes meeting those of adjacent veins; costa broad, pale, almost flat on lower surface; scales on both surfaces of young fronds appressed, stellate, mostly c. 0.5 mm ø including arms. Fertile frond: stipe 15 cm; lamina 11 by 3 cm, shape as sterile.
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